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Show WHO OWES US A LIVING? "Walt Disney, re-creator of the famous Three Little Pigs, has a new story out that of the Grasshopper and the hard-working Ants," says the Hollywood Tribune of Portland, Ore. "Its moral deals with our present problems so completely that it is worthy wor-thy of serious consideration now. "The story is about a Grasshopper who plays and sings all day, Oh, the World Owes Me a Living.' He wastes iiis food and time and is continually bothering the hard-working Ants, who are lnv'ng away food for the coming winter. "Finally winter comes. There is no food for our happy Grasshopper. Snow falls and our Grasshopper friend turns blue with cold. He staggers stag-gers to the door of the warm and happy Ants, who drag him in and thaw him out. As the Grasshooper returns re-turns to normal he is informed that all who eat the Ants' food must work. Dejected, he is about to leave when he is informed he may fiddle for his yhr.ro. Tlapny again, he ends the story by sinigng, 'Oh, I Owe the World a Living.' "Have we been like the Grasshopper, Grasshop-per, happy in the thought that the United Slates owes us a living? Can' the government spend millions and! even billions of borrowed money without with-out our having to pay it back?" We, like the Grasshopper in the fable, fa-ble, can live as parasites for a time. Rut a day of reckoning inevitably comes, precisely as the cold weather follows the warm. The public treasury IS not a bottomless pit, irrespective of the views of politicians who would; have us believe it is. And some chill morning we will awaken to find that) the national theme song has changed to "We Owe the World a Living." |